This is an appropriate time to remind everyone in the world that IPT has been found, again and again, to be a better way to use existing drugs for fighting a wide variety of infections.

IPT has been shown to work for viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections.

IPT has been shown to work even when tissue is necrotic (dead and dying), and extremely inflamed, as in cases of ulcers and appendicitis.

IPT has been shown to be safe and gentle for most patients, even those with extremely poor medical status.

By delivering drugs more effectively and efficiently, IPT can often give good results using a fraction of the normal drug dose, and in a shorter period of time.  In emergency situations, this conserving of drug supplies may be important or even crucial.

IPT's first application was to cure advanced syphilis, for which there was no known cure, in the 1920s to 1940s, before antibiotics.  It may similarly offer benefits for treatment of infections that are currently considered incurable, such as advanced respiratory anthrax infection.

IPT is a simple procedure that physicians and auxiliary medical personnel can learn in a short training course.  It uses existing drugs and supplies.  It can be simplified to use nothing more than an insulin syringe and a cup of sugar water, along with the appropriate drugs.

IPT research for infectious diseases in animals and humans could be done very simply and quickly.  Indeed, it should be done very soon, as a matter of national and world security.

See the infections pages, and the speculative infections pages for more information.